Sentence examples for winch from inspiring English sources

Heather, having already unleashed the ties securing the main sail to the boom says, "right, who's going first?" We alternately haul and winch the sail into position and five minutes later are, unbelievably, almost ready.

The boys now know why it's important to change the oil filter on an engine, how to rig a winch line, how to use sand ladders to get a vehicle moving again.

"This is just like waiting for a hurricane," says LeRoy Meaux, a Louisiana welder, as he works on fixing a winch to a barge.

The largest member of the deer family provides drag noticeable even on an industrial winch.

Thieves used to winch tractors onto lorries before taking them to sell in eastern Europe, says Tim Price of NFU Mutual.

Gliders are also launched by shock-cord launching, which works on the principle of a slingshot, or by winch tow, which works like a giant fishing reel, with the glider attached to one end like a fish.

Waterborne logs float into the mill and are dragged out in turn by a winch.

The winch is the oldest piece-dyeing machine and takes its name from the slatted roller that moves an endless rope of cloth or endless belt of cloth at full width through the dye liquor.

But Ms Gu apparently wanted the balloon-winch supplier to pad his price to cover her son's school fees.

Pressurized-winch machines have been developed in the United States.

The remorseless, ashen cliff-faces of the buildings – designed by Derek Winch, and bearing absurdly twee names such as Foxcote, Winslow and Missenden – helped to make the Aylesbury estate a half-understood cliché for urban meltdown, and it has been used as a location in episodes of The Bill and Spooks.